Where is charlize theron born

One of her first crushes was Tom Hanks. Theron once admitted she was infatuated with Tom Hanks as a young girl. Below, five things you might not know about Charlize Theron: English is her second language. Topics Charlize Theron. On 21 June , Theron's father, an alcoholic, physically attacked her mother and threatened both her mother and her while drunk; Theron's mother then shot and killed him. The shooting was legally adjudged to have been self-defense and her mother faced no charges.

Theron attended Putfontein Primary School Laerskool Putfontein , a period she later characterised as not "fitting in". At 13, Theron was sent to boarding school and began her studies at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg. Although Theron is fluent in English, her first language is Afrikaans. Movies 07 10 Movies 12 09 I think she has influenced who I am, but without intent really.

She would always say, "That's how I feel, but you should figure it out for yourself. I'm responsible for my own actions, my own decisions. So it's a weird one, because she didn't want me to be her, but I think now, at 32, I look at her and I kind of go, "Wow, I somehow aspire to be you.

The reason I did North Country wasn't just because of what the women were going through. I was really fascinated to understand where the men came from. But what those women suffered was appalling. Just appalling.

The real lady that this happened to is still in therapy and on medication. When you meet her, you understand that this has taken a real toll on her. Look, I can't forget I'm a woman. I love being a woman and I love being feminine, so that will always be part of my work, obviously. But I approach the material with a more humanistic approach. I think that kind of stuff can become over-earnest if you approach it with a big hammer.

Personally, I've been lucky. Maybe it's the way I was raised, but I know right from wrong and I know wrong when I walk into a room--and if I feel it's wrong, I walk right out again.

There were a lot of pros to winning the Oscar, but a lot of cons, too. Suddenly, it all became about transformation. Every movie I did after Monster was jumped upon as yet another transformation. Even when I only had dirt on my face, like in North Country it was transformation. I do all this work with Guillermo Arriaga on The Burning Plain script, we explore all these themes, and then we come on these junkets and it's like, "So you don't play a glamorous role again.

You know, how many great stories can you tell in a Dior dress? Or is it because I've done a J'adore perfume ad that I can only be one type of woman? I don't think women are that. We are many things. One day we wake up and we want to put on jeans and T-shirt, and the next day we want to fucking have our hair done. But that doesn't mean that I don't have access to raw emotion. But it seems to be a problem for journalists.

I don't know how to say this without sounding strange. But I feel like having this tragedy [her mother shot her father] at such a young age has given me a leg up from other people.

Because, man, from 16, I knew the value of life and I knew how quickly it could be taken away. And from that moment on, I made a choice to either swim or to drown, you know? People want to think that I am this tortured soul, that my work is drawn only from this one well. And though I would never sit here and say that it didn't mark me, or mould me into the person that I am, my life has had many painful journeys and heartbreaks since my father died, many of which I draw on for my work.

We're either really good hookers or really good mothers. The only thing that really stuck with me the first time I went back was walking through the house that I grew up in, and everything seemed so small.

It was such a bizarre feeling. I was like, "My mother made me sleep in a closet. I've never been a fan of labels. And I'm not a big fan of overly justifying bad behavior, or why people are the way they are. I think it's a cop-out. And I don't have a lot of empathy for that. I don't have to make these giant movies. It's such a blessed place to be in. I don't have to take a job to pay a mortgage on a house that I can't afford. My life comes first, then my job.

I'm incredibly lucky to be in a position where I don't have to work all the time to live. It's not like I've been [offered] any great glamorous roles that had great conflict and great storytelling. But I'm not going to be picky, because they're hard to come by. If I sit around waiting for a good, glamorous story to come around, I'm probably never going to work.

So if you don't consider my character [in In the Valley of Elah ] beautiful, I'm sorry, but that's really me. That's my natural hair color. That's me with very little make-up.

There's no prosthetics. That's what I look like. I think we're starting to live in a culture where we're so celebrity-obsessed that we're starting to believe that when we see celebrities, they're supposed to look like they do on magazine covers. But that's about people doing hair and make-up for you, and wearing big gowns. I look for roles involving good stories and good filmmakers. And it's my job as an actor to service those stories as best I possibly can.

It's not about how I look physically. Physical's the last thing I think of. All of that stuff is really nice. I do have a bit of a guilt--I don't know if it's the African in me--but I'm one person and how much makeup do I need? I have a normal-sized closet. I donate things. I don't have a nature in me to want things in excess. I actually don't like it. A lot of times, I will auction it off and have it go to charity. And my friends benefit a lot.

I call it Narnia. When I see a girlfriend and say, "I like that top," she's like, "Narnia, from your closet. I don't really talk about my personal life and I don't really talk about my relationships.

I'm not a big partier. I like the simplicity of my life, and I've chosen the kind of life I really want to live. I don't think my life is boring at all. There's this kind of idea that someone like me would be horrible with women.

That acknowledgement that if you look a certain way, you can't be a girl's girl. I have way deeper relationships with girls than I do with guys.

I get along with guys. The women in my life are the ones who move me. It sounds so hokey, but I've been blessed with incredible women in my life. Fur isn't necessary. It doesn't make sense to me to let these animals suffer for fashion. I wasn't technically the greatest, but I succeeded and got lead roles because when I died, I died, and when I was spinning into madness, I was spinning into madness. It's great fun when you have three people coming to your house, and one's doing your nails, one's doing your hair and one's doing your makeup.

Two hours later, you look gorgeous. But that's not my life. We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

No disrespect to the people who were nominated for Oscars, but the fact he wasn't to me was utter bullshit. I think he's incredible. He's so effortless that I want to punch him! It just seeps out of him. I think the reason why female directors are so successful is because they're not just telling women stories.

They might be telling stories that affect women but their studies on men are done so well so that they're universal directors. So I really believe this is a talent, and just understanding the human conflict is so good that they can tell any genre, any kind of story, and that's why I think they're doing so well.

You can't really come into the new job carrying leftovers. But for me it's somewhat easy because I've never worked with two directors that are similar.

I've never worked with material that you approached the same way. I think that's what makes it fun and makes it interesting. I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.

You go through situations that don't work out, and then all of a sudden you have this baby in your hands and you forget about all of that. I had no teeth until I was I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted.

They cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous. He would deliver a line and every single time it would have a different rhythm or a different. Which is so incredible to work with because, for me, acting is really listening and responding to what somebody is giving you. He is a really gorgeous man. He is also a wonderful, instinctive actor.